>>Very Strange Fish *IDENTIFIED*<<

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if it didn't have that freakish nose flap thing it would make a cool looking pet.
 
Originally posted by chaser_fan
That's no prawn, Solid. Prawns are crustaceans and therefore have a hard(ish) exo-skeleton and legs. This ones bones are definately on the inside and there ain't no sign of legs.

EDIT: I'm guessing that this thing is some kind of newly discovered species/subspecies that died and floated up, or was trawled by some deep water nets. It wouldn't be suprising if it was previously undiscovered, there's plenty of unknown things down there. I mean, no-one's ever seen a live giant squid and if you've seen The Blue Planet: The Deep, then you'll know that there's a lot of weird and woderful stuff that isn't in any wildlife books. Its skin also looks similar to that of a cuttlefish with manipulative pigmentation.

I agree with Cano, that those fins look as if they've evolved into some kinds of primitive 'legs' for 'walking' along the ocean floor.

By the way, I just got the picture in my inbox last night, and haven't had a chance to speak to the person who sent it to me.
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I remember reading (and watching some vids, too) of a certain fish called Celacant (it was Celacanto in spanish, I dont know how it would be in english, altough it cant really differ much) wich used some little rear fins and big frontal ones to walk trough he sea floor. it was quite amazing. this thing could do the very same thing.

Cano

here are some pics of said animal:
eslabon1.jpg

fenomeno-celacanto.jpg
 
Originally posted by Solid Lifters
Yes, it's a prawn. Well, according to this link... GIANT Prawn
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Sorry Solid, I meant the pic that I posted is no prawn. The pic you posted most definately is. ;)

I've just received an email from a fish expert and he says...

Hello, I believe this is a very young, just past larval stage, spoonbill catfish (paddlefish). I am going to check with an expert to make sure. If so it is a freshwater plankton eater found in the Mississippi River and its tributaries as well os other local rivers and lakes.

We'll wait and see! :)
 
Originally posted by chaser_fan
Sorry Solid, I meant the pic that I posted is no prawn. The pic you posted most definately is. ;)

I've just received an email from a fish expert and he says...

Hello, I believe this is a very young, just past larval stage, spoonbill catfish (paddlefish). I am going to check with an expert to make sure. If so it is a freshwater plankton eater found in the Mississippi River and its tributaries as well os other local rivers and lakes.

We'll wait and see! :)
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I did a search and this is what I found. It's a baby paddlefish. But they seem to be different to spoonbill catfish, though. These things can get HUGE!

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Originally posted by chaser_fan
Sorry Solid, I meant the pic that I posted is no prawn. The pic you posted most definately is. ;)

I've just received an email from a fish expert and he says...

Hello, I believe this is a very young, just past larval stage, spoonbill catfish (paddlefish). I am going to check with an expert to make sure. If so it is a freshwater plankton eater found in the Mississippi River and its tributaries as well os other local rivers and lakes.

We'll wait and see! :)
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I was thinking some kind of catfish because of the spiny dorsal fin. I used to catch catfish and getting them off the hook without getting stuck on those spiny fins is a trick.
 
Originally posted by Solid Lifters
I did a search and this is what I found. It's a baby paddlefish. But they seem to be different to spoonbill catfish, though. These things can get HUGE!
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Hehehe! You did the same as me. I found that pic too and thought the same as you. :p
 
Originally posted by Cano
I remember reading (and watching some vids, too) of a certain fish called Celacant (it was Celacanto in spanish, I dont know how it would be in english, altough it cant really differ much) wich used some little rear fins and big frontal ones to walk trough he sea floor. it was quite amazing. this thing could do the very same thing.
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In English it's a "Coelacanth". It's been estimated at 135 million years old (the species - not each fish!).

It doesn't actually swim either - it uses all it's fins to FLY through the water. Seeing a coelacanth in motion is absolutely mesmerising.
 
Yep, the Coelacanth was thought to be extinct until a japanese fisherman pulled one up a few years back.

AO
 
Since we're on this topic of odd fish... How about these two?

AO
 

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Hey - those catfish both caught a strange-looking guy!
 
as everyone is on about it walking, could it be a mudskipper of some sort?

And as mentioned earlier, every time you go on the internet and find something different you risk falling into the ancient trap of 'photoshop '
 
Hm. It's intresting that Famine is this big bank of knowlege and dosent know what this fish is. :odd:


Is the world comming to an end?
 
The Zoology degree finally pays off!

It's a juvenile Long-nosed Chimaera.

Chimaeras


Michael K
Resident Ichthyologist
 
That thing looks freaky! :scared:

Can you imagine swimming on some beach and then having this itch up your scrotum and then looking down on your shorts, you see that sucker down there, well, sucking ...Holy Mother of God...

:cheers:
 
Originally posted by Famine
Just looking at the score-marks on the chopping board it doesn't seem to be more than 4 inches long. Scaaaaa-ry.
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well after finding that picture i still dont know how big they are but are you sure thats a cutting board? it could be a mistreated conncrete floor because it doesnt look like wood or any other chopping board???sSo it could be bigger?!:odd:
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
Since we're on this topic of odd fish... How about these two?

AO
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Ummm????.......Those are huge but they dont have eyes?!
 
Originally posted by HIGH ON LIFE
http://clade.acnatsci.org/dagit/rhino.jpg
Well i attached an image i found off google so i hope it shows up:confused: :( :( :p :D :)
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That image was in Micheal K's link.
 
Yet again on the topic of odd fish.
here http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nmfs/images/big/figb0329.jpg is a sea robin. Now the weird thing about this fish isn't so much how it looks, but the noise it makes. Me and my brother caught one and it makes kind of a deep throated grunt, it was really weird.
Ohh and there an odd reddish pink color.

Freaky

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ohh yes and im quite familiar with one of these aswell
http://www.ftcfishing.com/photos/DEVIL4.JPG
i cought one under a dock and was almost to afraid to even touch it to get it of my hook.
it took me about five minutes and some thick gloves to finally be able to muster up enogh courage to get that thing off and back into the water.
 
I think that first guy happened when evolution wasn't watching...just like the infamous wholly duck-billed platypus.
 
Originally posted by HIGH ON LIFE
well after finding that picture i still dont know how big they are but are you sure thats a cutting board? it could be a mistreated conncrete floor because it doesnt look like wood or any other chopping board???sSo it could be bigger?!:odd:
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PTFE - white, durable plastic. We have one just the same.

DON'T make curry on one though.
 
DON'T make curry one one though.
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reason being?

OMG! Famine has made a mistake! he said,'one one,' instead of,'on one.' I am shocked! Please don't take this is as a blow to your pride it is just the first time a mistake of yours has come to my attension.
 

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